It’s Cider Monday! How do ya’ like them apples?
- Maria Popova always curates wonderful lists of books. She is my first go-to for book gift ideas. See what I mean: Here are 14 great children’s books celebrating science.
- Think you know all the most interesting things about [Lab favorite] Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum? Betcha’ don’t know her Desert Island Book List. Death, Science, Sexology- an interview with Joanna Ebenstein.
- The artist Sonja Hinrichsen, known for her snow drawings at Catamount Lake in 2013 has now completed another beautifully intricate community art project with 50 volunteers at Yampa River in Colorado entitled We Are the Water. I would love to have donned some snowshoes and joined this crew!
- Bird enthusiast and tree surgeon Tom Poulsom created an entire collection of realistic LEGO birds.
- And now from the Department of Improbability: Historian spots long-lost painting while watching ‘Stuart Little’. {via Brian G.}
- I saw this in my Kickstarter newsletter: “Three pioneering feminist videogames have fallen into obscurity—help us celebrate them and make them playable for free online.” Check it out! Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs: Visionary Videogames for Girls.
- Bonus because I love you: Bird Lands on Page About Itself.
…………..
Here’s how to make the world’s simplest electric train
from the page
This “Train” is made of magnet,copper wire and a dry cell.
Please enjoy watching this simple structure electric train.
…………..
Hat tip to Omar Gallaga for the Cider Monday idea.
Featured image is from the 2013 project by Sonja Hinrichsen at Catamount.
…………..
